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Show "ESSENTIAL WORLD AFFAIRS" . No one is going to dispute U. S. Secretary of Commerce Harriman that our nation would benefit from increased for-eign for-eign trade. ; The trouble is that American goods sold in European markets in the present and coming years will be paid for with American money, loaned by a soft-hearted United States government. We might just as well make up our minds that these loans will never be paid. Foreign countries must produce their own goods, for their own markets, and pay wages to their own people. That s the only way they can get ahead. American grubstaking grub-staking cannot last forever and we might just as well face the facts. A report that has been rather disturbing to statesmen and officials in Washington comes from Moscow where, it is said, Stalin and his dreamy Communists are waiting for the depressions, panics, and hard times that they are predicting pre-dicting and hope, will overtake the United States. Our own unsettled conditions seem to have been brought about through the waste of billions of dollars, a lot of which was spent in efforts to save Russia from collapse. It s time for the United States to paddle our own canoe. Incidentally, Congress does not agree with our own State Department that millions of dollars should be spent in radio broadcasts to Russia. Congress is right. We have been talking through radio mikes for the past two years trying try-ing to explain the value of American Democracy to an embattled em-battled World and we haven't made any material progress, prog-ress, despite the great efforts made by men like Byrnes 'Marshall, 'Mar-shall, Vandenberg, Connally and other noble-minded Americans. Amer-icans. v |